Random pattern for shoot em up enemy ??

[karvee2005]

Hi all, im new to flash and im trying to make my first shoot 'em up game for fun. I wanted to make one kinda like a western style quick draw type thing. Everything works fine so far, but i was wondering how i can make my thug or "enemy" pop up in random positions in the saloon scene. Right now i just have his mc tweened to pop up behind the bar and his repeating pattern just sucks.

[Gawain]

I would suggest perhaps making an array to hold the different places (x and y coords) of where the "bandit" can pop up, and then just have one chosen by random.

[Sammo]

Use a switch loop


number = Math.floor(Math.random()*3);
switch (number) {
case 1:
// do thing one
break;
case 2:
// do thing one
break;
case 3:
// do thing three
break;
}

[karvee2005]

Can somebody give me an example of using an array to control a movie clips random location at set intervals ? An explanation of the switch loop code ? I just started learning actionscript last week, lol.

[Sammo]

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/